When Pauline Emilia Hardy was born on 7 July 1857, in Saint-Imier, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Charles Karl Marcus Hardy, was 29 and her mother, Maria Sophia Doldi, was 26. She married James William Bean about 19 November 1884, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 17 March 1946, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.
Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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